[TheForge] OT- for computer geeks OT OT OT ( sounds like seals)

[John Husvar]

On Sunday, December 19, 2004, at 10:51 AM, Dave Mudge wrote:

> I am happy for you and grateful for your diversity.
> It is the difference that makes the world go round.
> How boring it would be if everyone did the same thing.

Ayup. :)

Just funnin' a bit. I don't want to start a religious war here.

MS deserves due credit for more than one thing. They've kept up 
backward compatibility, well, sometimes to a ludicrous degree. Load 
some variety of Windows prior to Win 2K or XP on most any halfway 
recent Intel box and it'll run, maybe slowly and haltingly, but it 
_will_ run. I ain't so sure about Apples. E.G. Anything later than OS X 
1.2.8 won't run correctly on my G4 without some patching.

And as marketing strategists, they're peerless.

Old Semi-joke: Bill Gates, the Woz and Jobs are chatting one fine day.

Da Apple guys: C'mon, Bill, our OS is better, our graphics handling is 
better, our memory usage is more efficient. How do you think you're 
going to take over most of the market?

BG: Right on all counts you might be, Guys, but it's not about that. 
It's about selling what you make. Good, better, or best product, the 
better salesman always wins.

Not to mention going open architecture way before Apple even thought 
about doing it. I think that was BG's smartest move. He never needed to 
sell hardware, not after MS-DOS and Windows (aka Wintel) became the de 
facto standard for PC's.

And they've made pretty impressive inroads to the server and networking 
market too.

Wonder what I could make out of old hard drives...Hmmmmmm.